Why is it that nobody, but nobody, can show the actual written perl code to take a file on a hard drive and print it to a network printer or even a local printer.

Because that's something that's usually handled quite nicely by the operating system -- thus no programming or scripting language (including Perl) needs to worry about it.

In DOS: print THISFILE

In Unix/Linux: lpr this.file

I have read discussion after discussion after discussion but nobody has shown the actual statements of code that will do this.

Your references?

This is so simple in other languages and so basic to any programming it is unbelievable that perl can not simply say "print this file to this printer" without having to jump thru flaming hoops and installing a bunch of add-ins.

What add-ins?

Can anyone demonstrate this, not discuss it, but show the lines of code? please reply: (redacted)

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